Improvement in labels or tags



E. w. DENNISON. LABEL OR'TAG.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

E. V. DENNISON, ,OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN LABELS OR TAGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,87 l dated June9;'18G3.

scription of the same, reference being bad tothe accompanying drawings,forming apart this specific-at on,-iI 1 which- Figurcs 1 and 2 are faceviews of two labels constructed according to my invention. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section corresponding with Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a longitudinalsect-ion correiponding with Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in theseveral figures.

This invention consists in constructing a label or tag of paper with anadditional thickness of fabric in the form of a washer applied andsecured by glue or other adhesive material on each ide of the label ortag around the hole which is provided for the string by which to attachthe label or tag to any article, such additional;hickness'servin g togive great strength to the label or tag in the part where strength ismost required, but leaving the greater portion of it pliable and notlikely to break by accidental doubling.

A, Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, is the piece of paper of which the label or tagis mainly composed and a a are washers of similar fabric, glued, pasted,gummed, or otherwise stuck with adhesive material to the 'piece A onopposite parts of the two sides thereof. The hole b. for the receptionof the string, is punched through the several thicknesses of fabric andmay have applied within it a metallic eyelet,

c, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, or may be left without such eyelet, asshown in Figs. land 3.,

A label made as above described, of paper alone, without an eyelet, isvery much stronger' in and around the e e than the labels composed of athickness of paper and a thickness of cloth combined by adhesivematerial and doubled and eyeleted at one end, and much cheaper but bythe addition of the eyelet the .paper'la-bel is greatly strengthened.

I Instead of being made in circular form, like. washers, the aridztionalthicknesses of fabric by which tlieproper thickness is obtained roundthe hole may be made toextend right across the perforated end of thelabel or tag, or be made of any other form.

I am aware that itis common to strengthen fabrics for various purposesby attaching one or more additional thicknesses at the place where theeyelet-holes or button-holes are formed, and I am also aware that labelsor tigs have been made with eyelets for receiving the attachingstring.I, therefore, do not desire to be understood as claiming either oftheselinventions, broadly.

'hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

As a new article of manufacture, a label or tag composed of paper withan additional thickness of fabric in the form of awasher applied andsecured by glue or other adhesive material on each side ot'the label orta g around the eye, as and for the purposespecitied.

E. W. DENNISON.

Witnesses:

M. M. LIVINGSTON, DANL. ROBERTSON.

